Water cuts or, even worse, water that no longer flows from the taps, is the hell experienced daily by some inhabitants of Guadeloupe. A dilapidated network, a lack of maintenance, in particular damaged the network in a lasting way. A situation from which the inhabitants have suffered for decades. Report in a district of the commune of Sainte-Rose, in the north of Basse-Terre. Alexandre Houda, Guadeloupe The 1st.
Direction the Indian Ocean where Reunion Island hosted this week a training against marine pollution. 17 trainees from Comoros, Reunion, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique and Mauritius took part in a seminar organized by the inter-regional maritime security institute. Jérôme Lafon is the Deputy Director of the South Indian Ocean Sea Department, at the microphone of Harini Mardaye
The first “direct” flight of the summer between Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and St-Pierre-et-Miquelon landed on Monday June 20, at the end of the afternoon on the runway of Pointe-Blanche airport ! The rest of the year, remember, travelers must make a stopover in Canada before arriving on this North Atlantic archipelago… This direct flight is therefore very popular with passengers. 12 round trips are programmed. The last is scheduled for September 6.
Connecting Marseille to Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean, by sea, it’s perfectly commonplace, it’s been done even for years with motor cargo ships in particular, but doing the same route in a sailing cargo ship, that’s is new! The project, which is more respectful of the environment, is carried out by a cooperative based in Lorient, and should materialize by 2025. Sophie Person.